Jane Collier
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Standard Name: Collier, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Collier
Nickname: Jenny
Pseudonym: C. J.
Pseudonym: The Invisible Girl
JC
was a remarkably innovative and experimental prose-writer of the mid-eighteenth century. She produced one anti-conduct-book, one collaborative novel (written together with Sarah Fielding
), a remarkable commonplace-book (only recently discovered), and trenchant literary-critical comments. Other work may have failed to survive: she reached the planning stage, at least, with a tragedy, comedy, farce, her own periodical, a French grammar, and especially periodical essays.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | The book's admirers included (perhaps embarrassingly) the courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips
, who praised it in her Memoirs. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 72 |
Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | Collier
's commonplace-book mentions a scheme for A Book calld the Laugh on the same plan as the Cry, but this is not known ever to have existed. Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 139 |
Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | Its topic was the relationship between Mary Tudor
and her sister Elizabeth
before either of them came to the throne. Jane Collier
's commonplace-book mentions a scene in Sallys Play, in which a character... |
Reception | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | The answer, written by a woman for a man [and now generally agreed to be by Montagu], woundingly concludes, the Fruit that can fall without shakeing / Indeed is too mellow for me. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press. 263 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | She supplies a kind of cast list of characters, and says she has written A Dramatic Novel Gibbes, Phebe. The Niece; or, The History of Sukey Thornby. F. Noble. prelims Gibbes, Phebe. The Niece; or, The History of Sukey Thornby. F. Noble. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
opens with a challenge to the ignorant, since only they might suppose her subject-matter here to be unfeminine. She combines two topics: Indian or Hindu society and English, allegedly Christian society, with special emphasis... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rachel Hunter | Rachel, an heiress, gives her heart to a poor man whose family oppose the match for fear of being seen as mercenary. She is also something of a social rebel, a feminist (fond of gender-bending... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | She met Sarah Fielding
at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding
, Saunders Welch
(the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery
. She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | She had written most of it by November 1751. With Johnson
as mediator, she consulted Richardson
about revisions, denouement, optimum length (she reduced her plan from three volumes to two), and about her choice of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The heroine, Eliza Newton, is at the opening of the story being exploited as a sixteen-year-old unpaid governess by the affected Lady Wandsworth, who practises (in a submerged allusion to the satirist Jane Collier
)... |
Education | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Miss Salusbury grew up not in Wales but in London and at Offley Park in Hertfordshire, the estate of her rich uncle. Her various teachers and tutors included Jane Collier
's brother Arthur
... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Richardson | His close friends, too, included a remarkable number of writing women: among others Sarah Fielding
, sister of his literary arch-rival, Jane Collier
, Hester Mulso (later Chapone)
, Susanna Highmore (later Duncombe)
, and... |
Literary responses | Samuel Richardson | With Clarissa's rape and death, Richardson's circle became more critical than they had been all along, and objections from them and other readers began flowing thick and fast. The whole novel was discussed in print... |
Literary responses | Sarah Scott | Samuel Richardson
(given an advance copy by the publisher) reported the verdict of his wife
and daughters, and the writer Jane Collier
(a friend particularly of his daughter Anne
), that the book was lacking... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | Here, under the rubric of writing only scenes of modern life and possible events and eschewing the craze for the wild, the terrible, and the supernatural, Smith, Charlotte. The Young Philosopher. Editor Kraft, Elizabeth, University Press of Kentucky. 5 |
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